Sentences with phrase «as a touchstone as»

The written format of our process facilitates reflection and the personalized attention from the LAL means that the experience is more likely to «stick» and continue to serve as a touchstone as applicants move into Leadership.

This student, described in the narrative below, has served as our touchstone as we have considered the topic of educational opportunity and how North Carolina can provide it, equitably, to all students, even those who are most challenging to teach or most at risk of failure.

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The airport as a whole is an architectural touchstone already, its white 1961 flying - saucer «Theme Building» a designated historical monument.

Rather than jamming horizontal television ads into a digital interface, as had been the norm, the mobile - born platform made vertical video a key touchstone of its pitch to marketers.

Long After Mrs. Handler left Mattel and turned away from toys, Barbie remained wildly popular, not only as a toy, but as a touchstone of American culture.

Acting as it does as a summary and analysis of five decades of Lutheran - Catholic dialogue, 2015's Declaration on the Way: Church, Ministry, and Eucharist will undoubtedly be a helpful touchstone in future ecumenical discussions between the two traditions.

Touchstone provides a forum where Christians of various backgrounds — Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox — can speak candidly with one another on the basis of a shared commitment to the Great Tradition of Christian faith as revealed in the Holy Scriptures and set forth in the classic creeds of the early church.The term «mere Christianity,» of course, was made famous by C. S. Lewis, whose book of that title is among the most influential religious volumes of the past one hundred years.

Indeed, even on this point Arendt's touchstone was not only the mission of the Congress for Cultural Freedom but also what she perceived as its bias against those thinkers of German liberal extraction, such as Paul Tillich and herself.

is one of the most important, successful, permanent touchstones of modern culture: Through an original American story, it takes the player through the same pressures and temptations as the protagonist.

There has, however, often been a tendency in the church to sanctify a particular phrase or title and to use that as a touchstone of orthodoxy.

Bonhoeffer deals with the early heresies condemned at the Council of Chalcedon, which he uses as a touchstone for his Christology.

Because of the presupposition present in evolutionary theory, Whitehead used consciousness as the touchstone of human experience.

What gripped me most were the touchstones of denial, those passages I could interpret as expressions of my own vision.

What we are proposing, in effect, is to use material established as authentic by the one sure criterion as a touchstone by means of which to judge material which itself would resist the application of that criterion, material which could not be established as dissimilar to emphases of Judaism or the early Church.

Mr Bauman shared a post saying: «I shared the gospel with them using Romans 6:23 as the touchstone verse.

As Fifty Shades of Grey hits the cinema this weekend and becomes the cultural touchstone of 2015 thus far (yes, Fifty shades... More

Paul's theology, as mediated through Bultmann's Lutheranism and existentialism, is still for me the touchstone for what is meaningful, and it may always be.

Touchstone's catalogue of evasion in Shakespeare's As You Like It closely parallels the statements made by defenders of Amoris Laetitia.

These range from stories of the saints, to concerns of people today, to a look at his own personal experience as a child and with L'Arche, all the way to broader comment on resistance to the Nazis, the war in Rwanda, and the conflict in present day Israel and Palestine, and he sees in the Gospel many touchstones for our modern lives.

This chapter takes as its point of departure and as recurring touchstones several texts of Benedetto Croce and Antonio Gramsci.

Thus, I'm opposed to theologians who advocate Gaia worship (which, for the uninitiated, means substituting feminist ideology for the apostolic tradition as the touchstone of Christian orthodoxy), but I don't think there's the remotest need to worry that they'll have any influence over the future of Christianity.

The first, a Tim Curry - starring television miniseries, has become a pop culture touchstone, though it's neither as good or as scary as its popularity would lead you to believe.

In short, the ontological argument can be made to stand as a touchstone for philosophical positions; what does the verdict of a given philosophy on the argument tell us about the assumptions and the viability of that philosophy itself?

There is a baffling variety of types and degrees of the disorder, so that if one uses any generalization as an infallible touchstone, he will be led astray in dealing with individuals.

During the modern era, science served as the touchstone for intellectual rigor, and often for good reason.

Those decisions are now taken as the touchstone for liberal jurisprudence.

That's his thesis, more or less, and despite considerable meandering through a smorgasbord of thinkers, movements, events, and philosophies, most home - grown and more than a few half - baked, he sustains it or, better put, continually returns to it as his touchstone.

One such cultural touchstone was Juba's emerging fashion industry, led by designers such as Akuja de Garang.

The restaurant's menu is diverse and flavor - forward, inspired by DaSilva and Coddington's upbringing as well as the various cultural touchstones that they find irresistible.

They tap the deep ethical principals they forged at Waldorf as a touchstone that serves them well throughout their lives.

This clarity was my touchstone as events unfolded before the birth.

My second reason for favouring a document that includes elements of reform is that if we are (as we inevitably now are with the PCRC Report) into the arena of possible constitutional reform we can only talk about it in an evaluative way if we have reform proposals as the touchstone for debate.

The voter register is the most important tool for making election outcomes credible, it is like a credible and reliable scientific research which relies on the «sample frame»; it is the touchstone that gives assurance to the fact that the ballot, as expressed in an election, arose from the physical presence of eligible voters at the polling unit who delegated part of their sovereignty temporarily to elected officials.

While politicians elsewhere in the UK do their best to avoid touchstone moral issues such as abortion and gay rights come election season, they're still a staple of Northern Ireland politics.

But if he was addressing what he cast as the dangers of 2016, many of the address's touchstones seemed culled from 1984.

While many still depend on the Library for traditional resources and services such as books, magazines, media and general reference, more and more of our residents rely on their local library as their touchstone to technology and their onramp to the Internet.

While many still depend on us for traditional library resources and services, such as books, magazines, media and general reference, more and more of our residents rely on their local library as their touchstone to technology and their onramp to the Internet.

«Their work is a tremendous asset to us all and has served as a touchstone for many around the world.»

Idiocracy drew little comment on its initial release, but has become a touchstone among those who despair at what they see as relentless dumbing down of social and political discourse.

With the moons as his touchstone, he clocked the speed of light for the very first time, in 1676.

I decided to read my own book again as a touchstone of reality to help me through this challenging time.

For those who are confused, we suggest the principles of traditional diets as a touchstone.

Yoga's history, philosophies, such as the Yogic guidelines for mindful living and Self - Mastery and Yoga's traditional texts such as the Yoga Sutras, the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, and the Bhagavad Gita are all powerful touchstones along the Yogic path that can all be applied to modern day living and everything that you and your students are going through.

In addition, he is the author of the best selling book, No Grain No Pain, published by Touchstone (Simon & Schuster) Dr. Osborne has served as the executive director and the vice president for the American Clinical Board of Nutrition.

As noted by Calabrese et al (1), we need to check our agendas at the door about current functional medicine touchstone issues such as heavy metals, alcohol, irradiation, etc., and accept the research - based reality that low dose exposure is not only not harmful but actually beneficiaAs noted by Calabrese et al (1), we need to check our agendas at the door about current functional medicine touchstone issues such as heavy metals, alcohol, irradiation, etc., and accept the research - based reality that low dose exposure is not only not harmful but actually beneficiaas heavy metals, alcohol, irradiation, etc., and accept the research - based reality that low dose exposure is not only not harmful but actually beneficial.

We use the online dating category as our touchstone.

I suppose DreamWorks and Touchstone were walking a fine line — they didn't want the older demographic thinking this was a kiddie movie so they needed a PG - 13 rating, but I think this film would have been just as effective if they toned it down a tad.

Yet, while those films used the experiment as a touchstone, allowing the story to take on more aspects of a thriller, Kyle Patrick Alvarez's film is less concerned with thriller elements, but rather the loss of individuality the participants experienced, and how quickly the guards began to abuse the prisoners, most of whom quickly bent to authority.

Cue the movie's most intriguing section, as our inability to let go of material touchstones — nearly six figures for a scribble on some horsehide!

The technical features on Roger Rabbit are not as perfect as we would expect from a Disney / Touchstone release, but well done nevertheless.